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My company BuySend.com is a huge online retailer in the UK, we have over 500,000 products in our catalogue. When dealing with new suppliers we request a spread sheet of the suppliers’ entire product inventory, including the product barcode. We upload these products into our system, before adding further details and listing the product for sale on our website.
We now have a major issue where sometimes the suppliers spread sheets do not include the leading zero on barcodes (sometimes due to the format they have been saved in), or sometimes because they are a UPC barcode and have less digits.
We want to know if there is some sort of barcode validation tool we can use in our system, so that if for example we try uploading the barcode 77540050857, our system knows that the actual barcode should be 077540050857 (with the leading zero). It would therefore not create a duplicate product in our system like it does now. It would also be ideal if it could spot bad barcodes and simply not import them into our system as new products.
I am sure every single large retail company comes across this issue and as you are probably aware we simply cannot afford to have bad data in our system, especially when it comes down to barcodes, as this causes havoc across many areas of our company.
Please let me know if you offer some of service that would be able to aid us with this? If not, do you know any companies that would be able to help?

Can you provide contacts at companies that are experienced replacing humans performing magnetic particle inspections by automatically segregating defective (cracked) parts from parts without defects? This process is performed on heat treated steel forgings.

Hello, I have a GigE camera from THE IMAGING SOURCE and I need to build a program in c++ in Linux that can communicate with the camera, change settings ( iris and exposure time ), capture an image and saving it to a specific place. Firstly I need one library to do my job and secondly I will need some help building the program.

Good day,
I'm looking for a list of companies able to supply a vision system able to detect on line the presence or absence of an expiry date printed with an ink jet printer. The system should also be able to detect the conformity of the printing (missing dots, distorted dots / character, stained, wrong typo).
Can you help me ?
Best regards,
Olivier

I am working on a project that will be receiving data from an Allied Vision Tech camera (GX2750). This camera has two GigE Vision output ports configured as a Link Aggregation Group(LAG). We need to get this data off of the camera and into an FPGA (we are using Xilinx). We are looking for any off the shelf hardware evaluation boards (and daughter cards if necessary) to capture this data for processing. Any recommendations, or can you point me to vendors that might have a solution to help us out?

Is the IP-Core of the M-Protocol of the Camera Link HS standard capable of 2.1 GB/s per lane, or is it capable of 2.1 GB/s per 7 lanes (so 300 MB/s per lane)? The flyer on the website is not clear about that. (link: http://www.visiononline.org/userAssets/aiaUploads/file/CLHS%20Data%20Sheet%20M%20Protocol.pdf)

Hi,
my problem is to control on FPGA the acquisition of information through a Piranha Dalsa P22206k40 linescan by external trigger .
Can you tell me the mapping data lines (X0, X1, X2, X3) in terms of pixels, because I found documents with conflicting information?
My target is to control the acquisition occurring when the value of FVAL changes. I noticed that at times the pixel clock is regular and sometimes not, this indicates the availability of data?
Best Regards,
Maria

I am looking for a camera enclosure. I have been currently using a Vizient camera enclosure that is designed for welding applications. I need something that is sealed and water tight so that when the enclosure is mounted on the EOAT of my robot and I am entering a machine tool that is dripping coolant all over my camera doesn't get wet and the lens has a cover to protect from any coolant getting on it as well.

I have some information that I want to send with every frame of video. I am having trouble determining if I need another stream channel separate from the video stream channel for this information or not.
I prefer to use an image payload type and have a small amount of information (guessing 64 bytes or less) about the image circumstances at the time sent with it. I'm interested in the most elegant way to accomplish this using the GigE Vision standard.
I believe I can do this with 2 separate stream channels, one for image and one for raw data, but this may not be the best way. I had trouble comprehending the spec as far as other ways to do this using one stream channel only. Any insight would be appreciated.

Hi,
I'm in a professional crises, I feel that I'm stuck and I need to move forward.
I have a strong experience in computer vision software, both with Matlab and C/C++. I've worked on PC using opencv and I've also developed software and hardware based on ADSP-BF533 from Analog.
My question is: What is the "moving forward" that I need to start a serious career in Machine vision and what should be my work path.
Thanks, Carlos Silva

I am using a network sniffer and seeing a lot GVCP discovery pings on my network. The packets are using broadcast address. Is there a way to control GVCP pings to the local segment which the cameras are on?